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Historical Event on 5/21/1835
Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born.
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| 2/23/1996 | North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated. |
| 2/27/1999 | Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent. |
| 6/14/1997 | Rajya Sabha chairman recognises split in AIADMK parliamentary party and designates Jayalalitha-led AIADMK as AIADMK(I) and Thirunavukkarasu group as AIADMK(II). |
| 1/31/1976 | Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 9/19/1990 | Rajeev Goswami, a student of Delhi University, attempts to self immolate himself in protest against the implementation of Mandal Commission Report. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 1/30/1988 | Sheshrao Wankhede, barrister, passed away. |
| 1/17/1905 | Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988. |
| 7/19/1998 | The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly. |
| 10/2/1999 | Ban orders in Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. |
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